Gun Control Reform Activism

of it and it does look like what my brother described.

I heard about his problem while I was out there because it was kind of sad. I think they gave him 90 days to sell his weapons. He'd been coming out for quite some time and sadly, these were some of his last days he was going to be able to enjoy his guns.

Thanks for "aught". Like anything else, the "hobby" (if you will) has it's own vocabulary or slang terminology. I just remember what it sounded like (and I have a bit of a hearing problem - missing some frequencies). I don't recall ever seeing it in print but I did recall the 30-06 on the label. Always wondered what that was about.

One of the group, he was a bank manager. Had a degree, etc and was successful - seemed good at that job. He applied to be a policeman. He really wanted to do that. They declined him. He flunked his psych test .. 40 years ago. We think they picked up that he'd be a danger to kill someone. When we were out target shooting, he saw a coyote about half a mile away. He grabbed his 30-06 and had to go after it to kill it. His eyes dilated and he just had to do it. We were upset with him because this blood thirty idiot could shoot us if the coyote got in between us. As I suspect you know, a 30-06 can kill from a mile away.

And then there is this other guy in the army and the army figures out the guy is too bonkers to own a gun and somehow, they have a mechanism to get him to dispose of them.

The point there is 40 years ago, institutions had the ability to diagnose whack jobs with some sort of accuracy who shouldn't have guns or be cops and in the army's case, had some sort of ability to force the guy to dispose of them. For some reason, 40 years later, we still can't seem to get that for civilians to protect them from nuts with guns. It just doesn't make sense to me.